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Cretaceous chromosphere

Mark Johnston from Scottsdale, Arizona

Prominences are masses of hot plasma that leap off the limb of the Sun, drawn upward along tangled magnetic field lines. The imager used a 6-inch scope and Hα etalon to capture this Feb. 1 example, which appears to resemble a T-rex stomping across our star’s surface.